Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?
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Barnes' Notes
Fifty years old - Jesus is supposed to have been at this time about the age of 33. It is remarkable that when he was so young they should have mentioned the number 50, but they probably designed to…
Adam Clarke
Thou art not yet fifty years old - Some MSS. read forty. The age of our blessed Lord has never been properly determined. Some of the primitive fathers believed that he was fifty years old when he was…
In these verses we have,
I. The doctrine of the immortality of believers laid down, Joh 8:51. It is ushered in with the usual solemn preface, Verily, verily, I say unto you, which commands both…
Cambridge Bible
Then said the Jews Better. Therefore said the Jews.
Thou art not yet fifty years old The reading, -forty years," which Chrysostom and a few authorities give, is no doubt incorrect. It has arisen from…